Popular Post webfact Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok ranked among the worst air travel hubs in Asia according to Business Financing’s recent report. The financial information and research website from the UK, Business Financing, launched the Best & Worst Airports in the World, According to Business Travellers in February this year. This rank is based on the business travellers across the world on the online forum, Air Quality. Aside from information provided by the Air Quality website, Business Financing did not explicitly outline the additional criteria and conditions considered in the rankings. Scores ranged from 1 to 10, with only 12 airports achieving a score above 5. Noi Bai International Airport in Vietnam claimed the top spot with a score of 6.8, while Brussels South Charleroi Airport in Belgium was deemed the worst in the world this year. Noi Bai International Airport also secured the top position in Asia, surpassing Singapore’s Changi Airport, which held the top spot in Skytrak’s 2023 ranking. Kuwait International Airport was identified as the worst airport in Asia. Two of the 10 worst airports in Asia were the airports in the capital of Thailand, Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueng Airports. Suvarnabhumi Airport was in seventh place while Don Mueang Airport was in tenth place. The rank together with the complaints about the two airports, garnered attention in Thailand. Thai MP opposes ranking Last week, Suvarnabhumi Airport experienced an electric system failure in its driverless automated people mover (APM) train, causing a 30-minute delay for over 500 passengers. A well-known Thai actor Jesdaporn “Tik” Pholdee also expressed dissatisfaction with the smoking prohibited area at the airport, citing a significant amount of cigarette butts. Concerns about the overall atmosphere and facilities at Don Mueang Airport, along with delays at Suvarnabhumi Airport, continue to surface on social media. Prime Minister’s Office spokesperson Chai Watcharong responded to the ranking on Twitter. He urged Thai people to carefully check the source of the rank before concluding or depreciating airports in Thailand. Chai questioned the expertise and international acceptance of Business Financing within the airport industry, emphasising the need to assess every aspect of the evaluation. He added that the rankings may be based on the satisfaction assessment of some travellers regarding factors such as queue times at check-in counters. by Petch Petpailin TOP: The Passenger Terminal at Suvarnabhumi International Airport | Photo by Ruben Sukatendel via Unsplash Source: The Thaiger 2024-03-07 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Get our Daily Newsletter - Click HERE to subscribe 1 1 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post flyingtlger Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 19 minutes ago, webfact said: He added that the rankings may be based on the satisfaction assessment of some travellers regarding factors such as queue times at check-in counters. Yes, I agree a million%. The immigrations officers are unfriendly and move as slow as molasse in the winter not to mention how they stop to socialize amongst their selves, laughing and having a good old time whilst tourists are queued up after a long flight or trying to get to their gates. Also the walk from the gate to immigrations or getting to gates, even with the moving walkway, is way too long.... 2 7 1 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ezzra Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 Remind me again how many more ten's of millions of tourists the PM want to bring in?... 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ikke1959 Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 There goes the hub 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TheAppletons Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 Okay but.....Hanoi's airport is the best? Better than Singapore? Hardly. 2 3 2 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RandiRona Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 1 hour ago, webfact said: Chai questioned the expertise and international acceptance of Business Financing within the airport industry, emphasising the need to assess every aspect of the evaluation Lolol, I got to ask the same question to him. How many surveys in Thailand conducted by real experts not by random somchai. 1 hour ago, webfact said: He added that the rankings may be based on the satisfaction assessment of some travellers regarding factors such as queue times at check-in counters. Hahahaha, don't go there or it will be a self goal. You definitely don't want to ask how satisfied you are to a random tourist who waited in Q for 3 hours in immigration or a Thai for that matter. 2 1 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post milesinnz Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 "He added that the rankings may be based on the satisfaction assessment of some travellers regarding factors such as queue times at check-in counters".. so according to (broken) Thai logic, issues such as - "queue times" are not relevant.. sort of explains everything... 1 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sungod Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 The immigration queues at Noi Bai on arrival can rival Swampy at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 2 hours ago, webfact said: Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok ranked among the worst air travel hubs in Asia according to Business Financing’s recent report. Waiting for the spin on that.... 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 2 hours ago, webfact said: Prime Minister’s Office spokesperson Chai Watcharong responded to the ranking on Twitter. He urged Thai people to carefully check the source of the rank before concluding or depreciating airports in Thailand. Chai questioned the expertise and international acceptance of Business Financing within the airport industry, emphasising the need to assess every aspect of the evaluation. He added that the rankings may be based on the satisfaction assessment of some travellers regarding factors such as queue times at check-in counters. If they said Thailand got 10 out of 10 he wouldn't check anything. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AhFarangJa Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 Those people being polled have never flown into Riyadh airport then. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Aussie999 Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 5 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said: Those people being polled have never flown into Riyadh airport then. It makes no difference to how poor Thai airports are, it's a ranking system, some are better, some are worse, in fact the article is very clear, "amongst the worse." 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post trevoromgh Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 Why did 'Business Financing' bother with such a poll if they weren't going to tell its readership how the scoring was done? Without such information passengers and airport management can't make decisions on what to avoid/fix and therefore this article becomes pointless and frustrating. 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thesetat Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 1 hour ago, ikke1959 said: There goes the hub Do not fret, by tomorrow there will be other news showing how great Thailand airports are and that this one report was from some obscure ratings company that made false claims. Thailand is the HUB of many things including their airports. Just ask anyone who is in a supervisory position within the government 1 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 3 hours ago, webfact said: He added that the rankings may be based on the satisfaction assessment of some travellers regarding factors such as queue times at check-in counters. Yes, dummy. That's one of the biggest problems. And shouldn't that be DIS-satisfaction? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 21 minutes ago, trevoromgh said: Why did 'Business Financing' bother with such a poll if they weren't going to tell its readership how the scoring was done? Without such information passengers and airport management can't make decisions on what to avoid/fix and therefore this article becomes pointless and frustrating. They shouldn't telling should they? They should be aware of any shortcomings. It's called management. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoner Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 1 hour ago, ikke1959 said: There goes the hub the neighborhub. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1duckyboy Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Sounds like a criminal complaint against Business Financing may be in the making. TIT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AustinRacing Posted March 7 Popular Post Share Posted March 7 Accepting facts and correcting shortfalls goes against Thai way of thinking and why their progress is always slow. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shocked farang Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 1 hour ago, TheAppletons said: Okay but.....Hanoi's airport is the best? Better than Singapore? Hardly. The passenger experience at Hanoi's airport is poor, it has a very limited choice of restaurants and shops, I'm not a fan of this airport at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chongalulu Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I've flown into every airport in Europe barcelona... Waiting for the whoosh of confused emojis... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfd101 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 16 minutes ago, AustinRacing said: Accepting facts and correcting shortfalls goes against Thai way of thinking and why their progress is always slow. Yes, if you can't cope with the criticism, shoot the critic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ralf001 Posted March 7 Popular Post Share Posted March 7 Good to see Incheon come in @ #4. Very few airports have smoking rooms these days and I can tell you to see the smoking room there on my transfer last week from Michigan was a very welcome sight after 16 hours one me arse in cattle class ! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipalongcassidy Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 1 hour ago, trevoromgh said: Why did 'Business Financing' bother with such a poll if they weren't going to tell its readership how the scoring was done? Without such information passengers and airport management can't make decisions on what to avoid/fix and therefore this article becomes pointless and frustrating. The same can be said about the talking heads on cnn and fox... no facts... no solution... just blabber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydebolle Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Well, flights from Rangoon to Bangkok are almost always shorter than the queueing time at BKK; in one particular case the queueing time at the Thai immigration was longer than the flight from Singapore to Bangkok. Baggage delivery seems to be OK, as far as I can tell but the next hurdle is the tremendous mess at the public taxi counter. Irrespective of all this, some people call it home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryofcrete Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 3 hours ago, RandiRona said: Lolol, I got to ask the same question to him. How many surveys in Thailand conducted by real experts not by random somchai. Hahahaha, don't go there or it will be a self goal. You definitely don't want to ask how satisfied you are to a random tourist who waited in Q for 3 hours in immigration or a Thai for that matter. 3 hours..was that on the 1st of Octember ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco51 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 2 hours ago, milesinnz said: "He added that the rankings may be based on the satisfaction assessment of some travellers regarding factors such as queue times at check-in counters".. so according to (broken) Thai logic, issues such as - "queue times" are not relevant.. sort of explains everything... ....well, of course not, they consider the costs , the beauty of the buildings, the managed unchallenged kickbacks, the opinions of politicians and other dinosaurs , the revenue by Kingpower, the amount of people forced through the funnel and the quality of the Kuai Thiao in the cantene............all reasonable criteria stupid eejits in , say, Singapore , would not consider. Hah! Uncorruptable, polite Taxi drivers ? Anyone can do that but adventurous, sticky ones ....? Who has that? Oh yeah, Chiang Mai airport. Rather they go for obsolete ideas such as customers' satisfaction, processing time, modern and functioning equipment, baggage handling and equally silly things. Then there is Schroedinger's cat: when one talks about it (negatively) the condition changes automatically and the report becomes inaccurate. I haven't flown anywhere for several years if I had tp pass through Suvarnabummi and my wife is petrified every time she has to go home to Isaan via "that one" despite so far no one asking her for fingerprints and face scan or immigration hours. And in anticipation of the generally accepted level of humour : this is a parody of course and in no means mirror the Thai reality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mran66 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Airport users opinion is obviously wrong source of data for this scoring, especially so if users are foreigners. The correct approach to score thai airports is for thai military to decide the score, and senate to vet it, as they know it best as representatives of Thai people And to for scores of airports in other counties, only thai travelers publicly stated opinions count, assuming those opinions are subject to thai laws. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandolphGB Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Passengers having their legs chopped off by the travelators and fliers smuggling live animals onto planes probably doesn't help. Those things and the multi-billion dollars of corruption that goes hand-in-hand with state-run airports in Thailand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fallup88 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 People who complain long wait times must not have travel to US before where average waits are usually 40min or more. And immigration officers are just as bad as Thai officers. Those that complain long walks must have not travel to Germany where airports are just as far. But this ranking is hardly accurate and polling numbers way too small. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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